Icon painter. A "Rewarded painter" of the Moscow Kremlin Armoury. He worked in the Gold and Silver halls (1648-1664), headed a workshop of icon painters (1664-1686) and designed church vessels, jewellery, embroidery etc. He created icons for his own parish church of the Trinity "in Nikitniki", the church of St Gregory of Neocaesarea (The Virgin Eleousa of Kykkos, 1668) and many others. The art of Ushakov exerted an influence on Russian icon painting right up until the 19th century. It was a compromise between medieval traditions and new trends emanating from Western European painting. This master’s innovations, including the "lifelike" light-and-shade modelling of visages and the pursuit of the third dimension, were theoretically expounded in his "Word to the Diligent Lover of Icon Painting". Among Ushakov’s best known works is The Virgin of Vladimir (The Tree of the Muscovite State - The Exaltation of the Virgin of Vladimir), dated 1668.